New York Letter on Croker and Millionaire Homes
The New York letter recalls Richard Croker now aging and away from power, noting his son Frank’s death and Croker’s quiet life in New York. It contrasts Croker with his era’s strength and mentions his planned return to England after his son’s funeral. It also surveys millionaire houses on Fifth Avenue, highlighting Carnegie and Henry Phipps, and argues model tenements as a humane investment for urban health and independence.
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York
Richard Croker
New York
England
Italy
Tiffany
Florence
Mr. Carnegie
Colonna
Rome
Mr.Carnegie
Fifth Avenue
Pittsburg Row
Hieran
Henry Phipps
Mr. Phipps
Pittsburg
Death of trusted Washington correspondent E G D Dunell
Obituary honors Elbridge Gerry Dunnell a renowned Times Washington dispatch creator. The veteran reporter, in his sixtieth year, stood at the printer’s case with Bryant era Evening Post roots and earned respect for accuracy. He once faced Hewitt over a disputed Times interview.
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Elbridge Gerry Dunnell
Washington Dispatch
New York Times
Washington
Old Evening Post
Bryant
Dunnell
Abram 5. Hewitt
New York
Times
Hewitt
W. H. Vanderbilt
James G. Blaine
Rumor on Purdon Clarke and Metropolitan Museum Leadership
The piece weighs whether Sir C Purdon Clarke will face a contract labor law contest as Metropolitan Museum director. It notes Clarke as a contract laborer, mentions J Kennedy Tod’s past theatre with the law, and praises the museum’s growth, income, and notable donors. It cites Roger’s will, Vanderbilts, Wolfes, Marquands, and J Pierpont Morgan as current president, urging disciplined scientific art valuation.
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C. Purdon Clarke
Metropolitan Museum
Clarke
J. Kennedy Tod
Tod
New York
di Cesnola
Rogers
Vanderbilts
Wolfes
Marquands
J. Pierpont Morgan
The
Museum Association
Tobogganing a Swiss Sport
Switzerland in winter days offers ideal conditions for tobogganing with both women and men as expert exponents. Honors for clever manipulation of the bobsled often go to male contestants, while women also excel in this exhilarating sport.
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Switzerland
Japan and Russia Won't Use Silver as Coin
It was expected that Japan and Russia would both take silver for use in China and Korea, but this expectation was not fulfilled.
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Japan
Russia
China
Korea
Remarkable losses in battle cited by Warnock speech
The speaker compares Civil War and major Napoleonic battles to illustrate heavy losses. He notes Waterloo Gettysburg Borodino Leipzig and warns that the Twenty sixth North Carolina suffered 71.7 percent casualties in a single day and dwindled from 820 to 80 by day three, with Captain Tuttles company reduced to one officer and one man.
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House
William R. Warnock
Ohio
Far East
Waterloo
Europe
Napoleon
Wellington
Gettysboro
Meade
Lee
Borodino
Gettysburg
Leipzig
Tuttle
Masots in the Army and the Royal Welsh Goat Legend
The piece notes goats as regimental mascots in some armies, highlighting Billy the goat of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers who died on campaign. It traces the first royal gift in 1839 and mentions British regimental symbols including the white horse, sphinx, and red dragon.
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United States Navy
Billy
Royal Welsh Fusileers
Chakrata
Agra
Queen Victoria
Windsor Home Park
Jilly
Malta
Egypt
Crete
Hongkong
India
Royal Welsh
Anc
Apples Cider And Boy A Brainy Treatise From Agriculture
A Des Moines News verdict celebrates a United States department of agriculture publication on The Chemical Composition of Apples and Cider. The piece blends technical tone with nostalgic country cider mill memories and boyhood scenes of tasting and selecting apples, noting the fragrance and old mill rituals.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Des Moines News
Sonny
Builders Copy Plants Explain Stem Shapes
Lord Avebury notes that architectural principles evolved by plants millions of years ago. Stems vary in round triangular and quadrangular forms, reflecting mechanical needs. Plants resemble girders with multi directional strength, while paired leaves create two girders for two directional strain.
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Lord Avebury
Doctor Cannot Clarify Ill Patient Case
A doctor admits the case yields nothing definite and troubles him. His wife believes a simple cold is to blame, but the physician explains the ambiguity and uncertainty of the diagnosis.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Flux of the New Gold in World Markets
The piece notes a surge in global gold output from 200 million to over 328 million in key years, with 1994 marking a sharp rise. It questions where the newly mined gold goes, highlighting American stock growth, European banking gains, and unusual reserve shifts in England, Russia, France, and Germany amid broad circulation and refiners' use.
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Transvaal
South Africa
New York Post
United States
Treasury
Bank of France
Imperial Bank of Russia
Bank of Germany
Bank of England
England
Russia
Imperial Bank
France
Parisian physician offers mirth cure for dyspepsia
A Paris doctor claims a two hour daily mirth cure can relieve severe dyspepsia. He places patients in a circle to smile at each other and says two weeks of sessions cure even the worst cases, for a sizable fee.
Europeans
In a curious cultural note, a Japanese perspective groups all Europeans as a single category without tying identities to cities or nations. The description mocks European customs and habits as exotic and strange.
First Man Killed in Kentucky Civil War Recalled
J D McClure of Company F Thirty third Indiana recounts the first Kentucky soil death. The unit moved from Crab Orchard on October 19 1861 and skirmished at Wildcat the next day. A fallen comrade lay on a cliff by the road, burial performed, with Third Kentucky and First Kentucky cavalry nearby.
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Kentucky
J. D. McClure
Thirty-third
Indiana
Crab Orchard
Wildcat
Four Old Warships Get New Names for Navy Use
The New Hampshire, 1818, now with New York naval militia, becomes the Granite State. The Daie, Maryland naval militia ship, becomes the Oriole. The St. Louis, 1828, with Pennsylvania militia, becomes the Keystone State. The Iroquois cruiser, to join the marine hospital service, will be renamed the Ionic.
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New Hampshire
New York
Granite State
Naval Militia of
Maryland
Baltimore
St. Louis
Washington
Naval Militia of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Iroquois
Marine Hospital Service
Ionic
Lead Bullet Fracture Causes Death After Civil War Wounds
Abraham Delong of an Ohio regiment survived Stone River but endured increasing head pains that drove him to insanity. After his 1882 death an autopsy revealed two jagged lead fragments lodged behind the frontal bones, pressing on the brain and explaining his lifelong suffering. his widow received a pension.
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Stone River
Abraham Delong
Ohio
Delong
van Wert
Dayton
Injurious. When "the good things of life" are our best things they become our world
Phrase appears as a reflective editorial line from the Chicago Tribune. It contrasts material pleasures with broader values, suggesting priorities shape personal and public life.
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Chicago Tribune
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Young Crokers
Man of
Frank Croker
Ormond Beach
Florida
Croker
Frank
Hamilton Fish
Cuba
Fish
Owen Langdon
Maxime Gorky
Royal Goat
Battalion of Welsh Fusileers
Occidentals
Paris
Texas
Georgia
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